Goblin Town

This may be the last post this year. I realize this was my laziest year of posting and I wish it hadn't been such a clusterfuck. But I'm hoping to maybe continue to keep up the blog with once a week posts. I also have some other plans to build on the blog for anyone that might be interseted in seeing more besides just music. Hopefully you enjoyed what i posted this year. There was plenty I wish I had gotten up but I still have plenty more to eventually ad. Hopefully you had a good Halloween and I hope to see you back soon.

This is a track that's a remix from the Goblin's song in the animated version of the Hobbit. I figure sine Goblins are Halloween affiliated even if those particular Goblins aren't this still counts...right?

Mux Mool - Goblin Town

Devil Within

I guess the guy above is called Kid Devil...of course he is.

This track is by a band I've featured in the past called Midnight Juggernauts. They're from Australia. They're very similar to Cut Copy and Justice, plus they have a lot of haunted tracks!

Midnight Juggernauts - Devil Within

Skull-Eyed

You want demonic garage rock? Look no further then Texas. The Mind Spiders (which sounds creepy enoughas it is) are fromTexas and they specialize in grimy licks and haunted vocals. They just put out a new album this year and are relatively young.

I'm hoping to double or triple up on the posts tomorrow to better fulfill my full Halloween posts. Stay tuned.

The Mind Spiders - Skull-Eyed

Man or Astro-man? - Munsters Theme

Quick post. This is just a real short, perfectly executed by the band Man or Astro-Man. They're from Alabama and have some great surf rock/Sci-fi/Halloween tunes. They recently got back together to do some recording. You may have heard them previously from a relatively famous cover of MST3K.

Man or Astro-man? - The Munsters Theme
 

The Witches of Eastwick

I don't know if I'm the only one on the planet who watched Eastwick when it was on ABC a few years back. It wasn't especially good but a new show about witches in October pulled me in. They canceled it after an appropriate 13 episodes though. Theres also a movie with Jack Nicholson which...I think I've seen. It was the 80s, Im pretty sure Jack was coked out of his mind.

This is a hip hop remix from Cookin' Soul's Night of the Living Dead 3 mixtape. Featuring Big L and Big Pun its got the menace and spooky vibes you need for Halloween.

Cookin' Soul - The Witches of Eastwick

Dracula

I decided to start to dig into some music archives that were a little more accessible due to my primary computer still being down. This one is from the great Lucky Dube from Jamaica. There's actually a great Reggae Halloween blog over at Distinctly Spooky Jamaican Sounds and while I haven't checked there's a good chance this has been posted over there at some point in the archives. Jamaica is one trip I'd love to make, although I really wish I had been able to go back during the roots era of the late 70s and early 80s. Someday I'll make it though, maybe I'll find some great Halloween tracks if I do.

Lucky Dube - Dracula

All Hell

The Above picture is of the Hell Lords who are the various entities from Marvel Comics that inhabit Hell and occasionally pose as Satan. Its so ridiculous and is exactly the reason why I love comics.

This song is from a new semi western semi indie artist called Daughn Gibson. He's not that country, but he does have that outlaw vibe of someone like Johnny Cash. This is a pretty haunting track with some deep atmospherics.

I'm trying a new way to display files. We'll see how Soundcloud works.

Daughn Gibson - All Hell
 

It's a Nightmare

This is a track by a great new band called Apache Dropout. They good be on any old school garage comp but they do what they do well. Loose and scratchy vocals, weird effects in the middle of songs and wobbly fuzzed out guitar. It's just raw and absolutely perfect at what it does.

Apache Dropout - It's a Nightmare

It Gets Dark

This is a great poster by the artist Martin Ansin. Based in South America he has done a wide variety of prints for nearly every Universal Monster movie including the Wolfman and the Mummy. Still no Frankenstein though, yet.

Also I just wanted to add I fixed any old songs that weren't playable or downloadable. And to download the divshare player songs what you need to do is click share and it will allow you to download.

The next track is a Halloween titled song from a vaguely Halloween Titled band called Holy Ghost! They are from New York and if you like electronic esque dance music that isn't too digital or too guitar driven they are damn near perfect. I think they're a great hybrid and for what they do they're awesome at it.

Holy Ghost! - It Gets Dark

Back to the Grave

I'm not sure where Howler got the inspiration for this track. It might be due to the compilations of Garage Rock titled Back from the Grave, or maybe they just wanted to write a spooky sounding song. Either way, its another one for the Ghost Town.

Howler is actually a local band, I'm not sure if they bill themselves from Minneapolis or St. Paul but they released their debut this year. It was really solid. Although some people were divided, its got elements of garage rock, post punk and surf rock, even some bigger sounding stuff. I could see them growing into a pretty popular band some day, but I also wouldn't see them surprised if they never made it past touring smaller club venues.

Click share and then it will allow you to download.

Howler - Back to the Grave

Song for the Dead

Wow, I was browsing the blog to make sure I hadn't posted this one. Its a blazing creepy sonic nightmare from Queens of the Stone Age called Song for the Dead. They're one of my favorite rock bands but the last time I was supposed to see them about 8 years ago Josh Homme the lead singer had to cancel the show. Dave Grohl actually played drums on this track and the whole album so if you notice it has an awesome beat, there you go.

Still working on the computer troubles, hopefully will be back up and running properly sometime tomorrow night.

Queens of the Stone Age - Song for the Dead

The Mummy's Shroud

I had a little trouble in getting a post up today. My main computer where I have most of the music ready and easily available to me to upload is currently...almost undead. But I should have it back up and running smoothly. It was my B-Day this weekend so I haven't had as much time to devote to things like having a working computer.

I went back to the great Scientist Rids the Worlds of Vampires album. Now the thing about Scientist albums are that they are dub albums, so they are basically remixes of reggae song instrumentals. As such they don't necessarily have spooky lyrics but usually there's a theme around each album whether its horror movies, videogames or comics. Some of the songs on this album actually sound spooky and some just have those particular names. Its hard not to like an album cover with art this good no matter what your opinion on the music is.

Scientist - The Mummy's Shroud

Gangnam Busters

I saw this and it was simply to good not to add to the blog. I normally try hit on more rarities but this is a pretty fun mashup. Plus you can blast it at any Halloween shindigs and it should get people going. If you haven't seen Gangnam Style I don't know what I can add. Same goes for Ghostbusters. But the mp3 is here.

Faroff - Psy vs Ghostbusters - Gangnam Busters
 

Calvanes - Horror Pictures

I realize I'm still a few posts behind. I'll get caught up soon. Hopefully this weekend. Even though its my birthday I should have a little time.

Thought I'd follow up my Bollock Brothers post from the other day with another song specifically about horror movies. Titled Horror Pictures this is a Doo Wop song from the late 50s. Its the type of thing I can imagine being piped over a drive-in sound system as a bad sci fi flick like the Brain that Wouldn't Die is loaded into the projector.

Calvanes - Horror Pictures

The Insane Warrior - Then You Hear Footsteps

This was billed as the soundtrack to a horror movie that doesn't exist. Influenced by John Carpenter, The Exorcist and other classic horror films its a mash between something like DJ Shadow and the soundtrack to something like The Thing or Halloween.

This was ultimately an alias of RJD2. It is a really great album with a lot of strange moments and many of the songs build and coalesce into something completely different from the way they start. This doesn't have lyrics but its got a spooky title, some haunting moments and you can dance to it...maybe.

The Insane Warrior - Then You Hear Footsteps
 

Don Hinson and the Rigormorticians - Riboflavin Flavored, Non Carbonated, Poly-unsaturated Blood

I had this album on random a few weeks back and this great track came up. The first thing I thought of when listening was all those old Haunted Cereals from Count Chocula to Booberry. Most of these cereals you can get except Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy.

The whole album by Don Hinson is a great companion pieces to albums by Bobby Boris Pickett and Zacherly. It's got a strange vibe going everywhere from surf inspired songs to even stuff that sounds like it could be a girl group.

Don Hinson and the Rigormorticians - Riboflavin Flavored, Non Carbonated, Poly-unsaturated Blood

The Bollock Brothers - Horror Movies

So I am admittedly a little behind. But I will get caught up. This is the second track from the Bollock Brothers that's appeared on this blog. The first being Drac's Back. This is another weird new wave track titled Horror Movies. The best song that this blog has featured it is not, but it still has a solid groove. This song could actually probably be remixed into something great. Mostly just about watching horror movies, it gives shoutouts to classics like Frankenstein and Dracula and more recent films from the 60s and seventies.

The Bollock Brothers - Horror Movies

Mad Monster Party

This is a great post for multiple reasons. 1. I learned about a fantastically weird game called Monster Party and 2. This song by Ethel Ennis sounds like what should be the theme to a 007esque spy movie if all the characters were also Monsters. I say that because it has the sweeping orchestral type of music that would always occur in any of the James Bond movies. Really its the theme to a 1967 Animated Comedy by Rankin Bass.

Originally beginning her career in the 50s she's still recording music to this day. Her most recent release was was 2005's Ennis Anyone? Ethel Ennis, Live at Montpelier!

Ethel Ennis - Mad Monster Party

Spooky

I'm never quite sure how I feel about instrumentals. I mean, I love em, and I can usually get that 50's horror vibe from a lot of them if that's what they're going for but I realize sometimes if one comes on it might be hard to identify as strictly something Halloween related. But the lurching guitar licks that speed up and slow down and use unique effects all make this a great Halloween instrumental.

Supposedly George Barnes made one of the first ever recordings of an electric guitar. Primarily more jazz oriented this song could also serve as a great spy soundtrack theme. It's hard not to imagine fast cars, alley fights and kidnapping of beautiful women.

George Barnes - Spooky

I Think She Knows I Put a Spell On Her

This is from a compilation of mashups earlier in the decade called the Bride of Monster Mash. It was an annual series for a few years. Some are great, some are not that great. This is one of my favorites. Obviously a classic Halloween tune, I think the underlay of all the different songs under Screamin' Jay Hawkins vocals makes this a great tune...and just a little more danceable. 

DJ Earlybird - I Think She Knows That I Put a Spell on Her

Night of the Sadist

This is an old garage rock jam. It was recorded multiple times both as Night of the Sadist and as the slightly less threatening Night of the Phantom. Larry and the Blue Notes are originally a Texas band and this is without a doubt their signature song.

Its rising and falling guitar lick underpining a scary night time tale with some staggering drums makes for a great track. More songs and more links to come. Stay tuned!

Larry and the Bluenotes - Night of the Sadist

Fettdog - The Raven (featuring Christopher Walken)

This is a really cool track. I hadn't noticed it until just recently. Its a remix of Christoher Walken reading the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe and remixed over some haunting music. It took me a second to Christopher Walken and I was instantly amazed. Its really good, he's such a great actor and really knows how to use his voice to express emotion and cadence.

Fettdog - The Raven

King Khan and BBQ Show - Zombies

This is a screen capture from a game called Left 4 Dead. You play against and as Zombies. It is amazingly well done and I was absolutely hooked on playing it a few years back. I spent most of winter '08-09 playing it all the time. Its filled with cool moments and the levels are all really fun to play. Its also incredibly rage inducing during the wrong moments but its a great game come Halloween.

Zombies by King Khan and BBQ is completely not for kids. Slitting wrists, gratuitous swearing. I love it, but just an FYI you might not want to play it while answering the door on Halloween. King Khan and BBQ are great to see live. BBQ plays drums and occasionally guitar at the same time. King Khan plays guitar and sometimes crossdresses and they have some incredible garage rock songs.

King Khan and BBQ - Zombies

A few days ago I was watching the incredibly bad Sleepaway Camp trilogy. It's not just bad, it is the worst series of horror movies I've ever seen. At least it competes with Leprechaun. I'm not sure which one is truly the worst and I hope nobody ever goes in depth enough to find out.

Amazingly though, as bad as the movies are, the second one has some decent music in it. One of the songs is Stranger in the Night by the Orange County punk band Agent Orange. It's a good tune and the movie also features a few songs by Canadian metal group Anvil who had a documentary out just last year.

Anyways, enjoy Agent Orange and whatever spooky things you got going on tonight. There's still a few more posts coming and I will try to catch it up tomorrow.

Happy Haunting

Agent Orange - Stranges in the Night

Whodini - Freaks Come Out At Night

I realize I totally spaced on posting last night so I'm going to try and make it up today. I think I may be 2 posts behind for the month. It's a busy time and I've had extra work to do. I don't even currently have a costume set up for the weekend yet. I feel terrible, I wanted to put all my time into this one idea but I never got around to doing it/ordering the parts I needed. I realize now I need to start planning my costumes months in advance, at least if I want them to be as crazy as I'd like them to be.

This is a great old school track from Whodini. The album art isn't from the album this song appeared on but it just looked to cool not to post. I need to get myself a cream colored suit, even if there's no way I could pull it off like that.

Whodini - Freaks Come Out at Night

Super Villians - Ghostbusters 2006 Mix

This is one of the better remixes I've ever heard of the Ghostbusters theme. It's not as recgnizable, yet it still keeps intact most of the song. A lot of Ray Parker Jr.'s vocals are taken out but still your head is still in a Ghostbusting mood listening to it.

The original was at one time my favorite song ever. Its catchy as hell, Huey Lewis be damned, is just too fun and amazingly still holds up as a great song. Some 80s stuff sounds really dated but compared to a lot of more recent sounding music this could appear on an album today without sounding out of place.

Super Villians - Ghostbusters 2006 Mix

Freddy Krueger - Dance or Else!

Awkward 80s pop layered with vocals from Freddy Krueger at weird and inopportune moments? Yes. Checkmark. That is exactly what I want. Sure this song may not have sold a million copies...or any, but its so over the top cheesy. From the sub Peter Gabriel synth rhythm to the absolutely ridiculous guitar solo that appears out of nowhere and disappears into a bottomless abyss this song is perfectly weird.

It's funny to think about a character becoming so popular that in someone's mind this was a good idea. No doubt that person was someone else's boss, which just makes me sad. I wonder if there's someone out there who has the Freddy Krueger album on his resume?

Freddy Krueger - Dance or Else

Pete and the Bloodsuckers - My Baby Likes Scary Movies

This is a poster from the Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest. It's an annual festival filled with all kinds of offbeat weird movies. A combination of all types of midnight features, kung-fu and foreign type flicks.

This song is fantastic, when I first heard it, it caught me by surprised. It reminded me a lot of some of George Harrison's latter seventies stuff. It's got a weird mix of synth and doo wop. Enjoy it.

Pete and the Bloodsuckers - My Baby Likes Scary Movies

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London Live at the Main Point

This is a live cover of one of my favorite songs ever, Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London. I can't listen to it without singing along, I even do the howling. Its just got a perfect simple piano part and is crazy fun.

This version makes the piano a little bouncier and opens up with Zevon addressing the crowd before the song really kicks off. The audience starts clapping along before the song gets going and then he lets out a long high pitched howl before things jump into action.

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London Live at the Main Point

Killer Mike - Monster

Originally I was gonna go with some cuter Cookie Monster art but I found this image and its just the right amount of completely twisted and awesome. The artist is Rhys Cooper. He does a lot of very cool work on prints and other things.

The song is Monster by Killer Mike. The beat is has these really dark and cool guitar parts behind a pounding beat and Killer Mike's voice which roars over the top and can make anything sound scary. He's one of my favorite artists and although he sounds loud and fierce in his songs, I've met him in real life and he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met.

He just put out a new album called Pl3dge or Pledge Allegiance to the Grind III. I highly advocate you pick it up if you are into hip hop in the least. Its fun and smart.

Killer Mike - Monster

Paul Haig - Scare Me

Screaming synths and haunting vocals. That's all I need. Although its not quite my favorite genre, I do have a soft spot for any synthpop from the 80s. This song gets more manic and twisted the longer it goes on.

Its easy to imagine Paul Haig as being more post-punk then his synth-like solo work if this was the first song you heard. Definitely excited about this song. I may have to add it to my playlist for the next couple weeks when I will be lucky enough to DJ some of my favorite selections live.

The above poster is from Mondotees. They put out a few posters for some Halloween classics this year. You can check them out here.

Paul Haig - Scare Me

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone

One of my favorite memories growing up was on all of the completely random holidays that the Sci-Fi channel would run Twlight Zone marathons. Sometimes they would go on for entire weekends and others just a single day. Despite this being a good memory, incredibly rarely would I watch an entire episode. I think its because most of the time I remember the Twilight Zone marathon being on it was either the 4th of July so I was trying to get outside or it was New Years and I was probably playing videogames I got around X-mas.

Today's song is by the Dutch band Golden Earring. They are a band I am not too familiar with but they blend hard rock and synth. Kind of like of you Told the members of the Police and Thin Lizzy to fuse together. This song is exceptionally long, must have been the classic rock in them when recording.

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone

Michael Jackson - Triller (Bird Peterson Remix)

Thanks for coming to the Ghost Town! Please Have a look around, I've got some great Halloween themed music and if theres anything you're looking for in the archives feel free to comment! To Download tracks click share and then download.

If you go looking, you'll find there's probably hundreds of remixes of Thriller. Most of them are awful. Today I have two, one from Bird Peterson and another from Louis La Roche. Neither can top the original but both provide a slightly different sound and make the song sound a little more recent as in the case of the Louis La Roche version or completely twist it and just make it thud as in the Bird Peterson version. Not quite as brilliant as in 1982 but still a interesting twist.

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Louis Ra Roche Remix)


Michael Jackson - Thriller (Bird Peterson Remix)

The Comateens - Ghosts

The Comateens are probably one of those bands that should have graced this blog by now. Like a new wave version of the Cramps this song is particularly spooky. All kinds of effects come in and out around the spooky flickering guitar riff.

Like any good slightly spooky band they've also done a cover of the Munsters theme. So far I'm making good on the one song a day, although I'm still one behind. This is pretty good compared to the last few years where I've had to put up a couple posts a day when I started slacking off.

Anyone got any good tips for carving pumpkins, I'd like to try my hand at making a really good one once.

The Comateens - Ghosts

Screaming Lord Sutch - She's Falling in Love with a Monsterman

He formed the Monster Raving Looney Party, played with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Keith Moon and released an album the BBC called the worst ever. He was Screaming Lord Sutch and he was a character. A once in a lifetime type. He made some great songs and some not so great songs.

This one is a favorite of mine though and perfect for this time of year. It's raw and ragged but I have no doubt he cared and it works anyways. This sounds like the theme to a bad late 60's cartoon. Who knows maybe someone will make it someday. I love it.

Screaming Lord Sutch - She's Falling in Love with a Monsterman

The Misfits - Night of the Living Dead

Pre dawn corpses come alive! Today I have a followup to yesterday's track from Balzac, since they were influenced by the Misfits, I thought I might as well add a Misfits track. It's been awhile since the last one I posted which was Skulls if I remember right.

I was watching Shaun of the Dead today and remembered what a great film it really is. Its so simple but the relationships are all fun, and they ratchet up tension without somehow getting overly serious and it that makes it feel more real as they still joke while mad. That's the biggest criticism I have with dramatic movies is when people never joke or laugh despite terrible/scary things happening to them.

Yesterday was my birthday and I showed the Burbs on my Garage using a projector and my ps2 with the sound coming out of a guitar amp. It was a nice boogleg setup complimented with a bonfire and a couch found in someone elses yard. I just wish it wasn't get cold so soon. I'd like to do it all again.

Balzac - Space Vampire in Silence Noise

This is one of those songs that takes you a moment to realize how awesome it is. The guitars are fast, the drums are a series of pulsating hammers and the vocals are viking growls and howls. But it works, the melodies are awesome, plus they're yelling about space vampires so you can't go wrong with that.

Balzac is a Misfit influenced japanese band that's released a ton of albums. They seem to have evolved away from the hardcore shredding of their early stuff but its still pretty raw and loud. I would love to see them play. I've never been to a lot of hardcore or punk shows but this gets my blood going. Just gotta make sure I keep away from those space vampires.